Method of obtaining scalp-treating oils



Patented Oct. 5, 1926.

No Drawing. Original appli of vegetable oils, and mo UNITED STATES PA ALEXANDER P. ELIADES, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

METHOD OF OBTAINING SCALP-TREATING- OILS.

cation filed Rovem ber 13, 1923, Serial No. 674,530. Divided and this application filed June 26, 1924. Serial No. 722,542.

This invention relates to the product-ion re particularly to oils obtained from butternuts; its object beg the preparation of a butternut oil which is peculiarly suit ble for use in the treatpreventative for dandruff and other ent of the sea gorator of the hair and as eased conditions.

The invention further relates to the production of a scalp-treating character in a pure state, and capable of maintaining such state for a lp as a stimulant and ma corrective and disoil of the above long period without becoming rancid or turbid.

ably first s product. in salt wa ably two, to

Next, the nuts are dra oven and heated there come a rich brown co are placed in a suita duced to a fine pulp.

of considerable importance because thorough cooking an preventing any rancidity or tur In carrying out my roceecl as follows:

invention,

The butternuts are helled and the pieces of shell then re- I preferoved, although small fragments which ay happen to remain do not appear to ext any injurious influence on the final The nut meats are then soaked ter of approximately saturated sotion strength, for several hours, preferfacilitate the subsequent exaction of the oil and to wash ofi' any dirt.

This

ined and placed in an in until they have be lor, after which they ble chopper and roasting step is the d drying to which the cats are thus subjected has the effect of subsequent tendency toward bidity in the final product.

About five pounds of this roasted and reduced nut pulp ar cooking kettle, tog

ously extracted e then placed in a copper ether with a quart of prebutter nut oil and sufficient boiling water to prevent scorching during the initial stages The mixture is malntained at this temperature,

quent stirring, until the water has been re- Ill oil-extracting press 0 able type, after the drained therefrom, an of the Oll has been extra press is preferred, 1n or oved. The cooked pulp is then added of the heating.

then heated to boiling, and

with frepoured into an f any desired and suit- (n'l and oil exacted during the cooking process has been lid particles of the pulp.

d compressed until all cted. A bag type of der to hold back the The oil'thus ob- 'oil from butternuts which comprises first soaking the whole nutmeats in brine, then draining off the brine and roasting the whole meats until they attain a rich brown color, then comminuting the meats, adding a quantity of previously extracted butternut oil and water and cooking to a pulp the mixture at the boiling temperature thereof, draining the free oil from the cooked pulp, and pressing the residual oil from the latter.

2. The method of extracting oil from butternuts, which comprises apreliminary soaking treatment of the nuts in a salt solution, subsequent roasting the nuts, subsequent comminution of the nuts, subsequent cooking of the comminuted nuts with water and previously extracted butternut oil to form a pulp, oil from the pulp.

3. The method of extracting oil from butternuts, which comprises first soaking the nuts in-asaline solution, then roasting the nuts, then comminutingthe nut meats, then cooking the comminuted meats in water and previously extracted butternut oil to drive off volatile matter therefrom and subsequently pressing the oil from the cooked pulp.

4. The method of extracting oil from butternuts, which comprises first soaking the nutmeats in brine, then draining off the brine and roasting the meats until they attain a rich brown color, then comminuting the meats, cooking to a pulp with water and previously extracted butternut oil at the boiling temperature of the oil, and pressing the oil from the cooked pulp.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ALEXANDER P. ELIADES.

and the subsequent pressing of 

